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Spiny-skinned Invertebrates

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Carpoid

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Cake Urchin

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Brittle star (Ophiocoma imbricatus)

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Brittle Star

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blastoid

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Blastoid

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Platycrinites

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Pentremites

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Holectypus

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Echinosphaerites, from the Ordovician Period

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Echinosphaerites

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Cyathocrinites

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Cryptoblastus, collected from the Burlington Limestone, Iowa

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Cryptoblastus

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